Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-07-02
MYSTERY OF RED HAIR.
THE CONCLUSIVE DEMONSTRATION
MADE BY AN ARTIST.

No Such . Thing - Real Ned Hair-Ths
sunset Headed Maiden L. Never stupid.
Glowing Locks ON the stage-In Lit
eraturs
"Red HART There's no such thingr'
exclaimed a young and well known artist
who has passed many days in sunny
Italy the other afternoon as he prom
enaded up Fifth avenue with an equally
well known swell They had Just come
from lunching at Delmonico's at the
swell's expense. and the latter had just
remarked, after the manner Of his kind:
by Jove, just look at that wed headed
girl crowssing ovah heah; she gives me Il
sunstroke. dontcher know
why don't people call colors by their
proper names" went on the exasperated
artist as they passed the Brunswick.
But, my deah fellah, dOntcher know
what Navy Anderson says, A wose by
any other name would smell us sweet,
and if wed hair isn't wed, why, it looks
wed all the same" and AS this logic
seemed irrefutable there was silence until
the two men disappeared within the por-
tails of the Knickcrhocker club.
The reporter, who had overheard this
conversation. determined 10 unsolve thu
mystery OF red hair. and at dusk sought
the artist in his studio TO find out what
color red hair was. The artist was look
ing picturesque and Kind, and WAS pleased
10 mix on his palette three different
shades Of red, three OF yellow and three
OF brown.
TWO OR THREE COLoRS MIXED.
Now, said he. with the air of the COL
lege professor who pauses TO catch the
class with some startling question, point
me out the color that is like red hair. ="
The reporter couldn't do it. He lowered
about the orange color as the small boy
around the circus tent, but could not
touch 1t. He almost singled out one of
the sickly looking browns, but the reds he
skipped entirely.
'Give il up
Thought you would" said the artist.
condescendingly. What people call red
hair is a mixture Of two or three Colors,
according Ia the shade of red. Now. look
here II dab my finger in this yellow
and mix it with that red, what do | Gets"
why, exactly the color of hair the girl
had today
Il told you So" said the artist, "and
don't let any one ever convince you that
there is such a thing as real red hair
Call it red if you choose, but don I think of
il as the same color as a train lantern or q
coaching parasol, because you will be way
of. Adelaide Nelson had red hair, you
know. one of the most beautiful tints, and
Willie Winter spoke of it as the burpish-
ed gold that fioated around her royal
IL, ,,l-. H.
You will be nearer the truth
Ii is said by those who ought to know,
and no one has contradicted the state
ment, that red haired girl is never a
stupid girl. She is always quick of speech
and quick Of action. Red hair brings
with it a-quick intelligence and generally
great sensibility When il comes with
blue eyes and brown brows and lashes the
owner is of sentimental turn of mind
and usually very musical: with brown
eyes and dark lashes the red headed girl is
noted for her beauty Of cOmplexion-gen-
orally an ivory white-her love of exercise,
and is very frequently endowed with great
dramatic ability.
STRONG, EMOTIONAL NATURE.
Red hair always goes with a strong, emo
tional nature, and the red haired girl
laughs and cries at the theatre when her
black and yellow haired sisters sit silent
She is n creature quick to anger, easy to
please, a lovable darling when she likes
you, but sharper than q two edged sword
and as bitter as early gooseberries when
she doesn't
who are our red headed girls and
Those on the stage are well known. Mrs.
James Brown Potter is perhaps the most
Her hair is considered her
greatest beauty. 1t isn't the reddish"
red hair, but it looks like bronze, touched
with tint Of golden flame here and there.
Mary Anderson, who has Light brown hair,
by the way, raves over Mrs. Potter's hair
and wishes hers was like il.
Kate Claxton has what is called real
red hair-the bricky, carrOty, dark red
it is not q bit unbecoming 1t is
70 soft and silken, SO plentiful and curls
n loose ringlets, and then il has been such
4 salvation TO her, SO she says, for when
IRE meets fire they run apart, and she
yves her miraculous escapes from burning
hotels TO her ruddy hair.
In the literary world red hair is in
ensely admired. Emerson loved 1t, James
Whitcomb Riley has written many poems
IN it and in one calls it nut brown hair
with golden gleam," and Dante Gabrielle
Rosetti's wife, who died when very young,
had hair of a yellow red, long and curling.
He buried all his poems with her, but the
riends who had wished for his fame had
hem removed a few years afterwards and
ound that the beautiful red hair had
grown and twined itself all about the
In our literary world of to-day there are
many women with red hair
In the social world there are many red
headed girls and women who are both
,elles and beauties.
Among the great army Of girls who
arm their living in the large dry goods
'tores there are many with red hair which
'ociety bellies would give . great deal Of
money to possess.
A lady artist gives few hints as TO
what colors red headed people should
wear:
Those who have hair verging on brown
ook well in anything. Most red headed
,eople should avoid crimson; pink is bs-
'oming to pale golden red hair and very
air compieNion; green Of all shades to all
hades of red hair; blue likewise; yellow
o he avoided except by those with auburn
,air; black especially becoming; also Law
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